Atleti top World Cup final player count for third straight tournament
Marcos Llorente, Álex Baena, Marc Pubill and Alejandro Grimaldo for Spain, and Juan Musso, Nahuel Molina, Julián Alvarez, Giuliano Simeone, Thiago Almada and Nico Gonzalez for Argentina will represent our club in the World Cup final.
Atlético de Madrid will be the club with the most players represented in the World Cup final for the third consecutive tournament. This Sunday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Marcos Llorente, Álex Baena, Marc Pubill, Alejandro Grimaldo, Juan Musso, Nahuel Molina, Julián Alvarez, Giuliano Simeone, Thiago Almada and Nico Gonzalez (who spent the entire 2025/26 season as a Rojiblanco), will represent our club in the showdown between Spain and Argentina.
As a result, Atlético de Madrid also becomes the club with the highest number of players represented in a FIFA World Cup final since Italy 1934. This remarkable statistic underlines the scale of this achievement, with no club having contributed so many finalists in almost a century. We are also the Spanish club with the most players in a World Cup final in history.
In each of the previous two World Cup finals, four of our players featured. In Russia in 2018, Antoine Griezmann, Lucas Hernández, Thomas Lemar and Šime Vrsaljko represented France and Croatia in the final. Griezmann returned for Qatar 2022, joined by Ángel Correa, Nahuel Molina and Rodrigo De Paul, who went on to lift the trophy with Argentina.
This time, if Spain are crowned world champions, it will be the first World Cup title for our four Spanish internationals. If Argentina prevail, it will be a second World Cup triumph for Molina, Julián Alvarez and Almada, and a first for Musso, Giuliano Simeone and Nico Gonzalez.
Good luck to our ten players!
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